A Cypherpunk Manifesto | Crypto Anarchist Series | Episode 2 (WiM299)

Max Hillebrand joins me for a series of conversations covering various works on crypto-anarchism. In this episode, we discuss "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto" written by Eric Hughes.

Max Hillebrand is a free software entrepreneur building tools to empower individual sovereignty.

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:01:09 - Intro
00:02:42 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:29 - Introducing Max Hilbert
00:03:51 - A Cypherpunk Manifesto
00:10:27 - A Strong Case for Privacy
00:14:39 - The Relationship Between Taxation and Privacy
00:19:06 - An Option to Reveal or Conceal One's Privacy
00:23:55 - Governments and their Privacy
00:28:06 - Can you Steal Information?
00:31:19 - Bitcoin and the Legal System
00:34:50 - The Staggering Effects of The Global Communication Engine
00:41:28 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with The iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:42:25 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
00:43:26 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:44:01 - A Blurry Line Between Interactions and Transactions
00:48:18 - Selectively Revealing The Information
00:54:33 - “I Must Always Reveal Myself”
00:56:13 - Privacy in an Open Society Requires Anonymous Transaction System
00:58:11 - Monero vs. Bitcoin Argument
01:03:13 - Is Monero a Shitcoin?
01:05:09 - Why It’ll Take Years to Use Bitcoin Properly
01:08:12 - Transacting without Revealing One’s Identity
01:10:26 - Zero-Knowledge Proof and Cryptographic Signatures
01:15:32 - How Facebook Owns Your Data
01:17:58 - “Information Understands Less than Rumor”
01:19:47 - "Information Longs to be Free"
01:22:58 - A Chance to Win Discounted Tickets to the Bitcoin 2023 Conference and 10M SATS
01:23:53 - Hold Bitcoin in the Most Secure Custody Model with Casa
01:24:41 - The Only Way Out of the No Privacy Problem
01:30:44 - The Reason Behind the Movement
01:37:45 - A Stance Against Stateism Through Cryptography
01:40:56 - "Cryptography will Ineluctably Spread over the Whole Globe"
01:42:40 - The Incentives are a Ground Stand of Human Action
01:45:41 - An Open Source Ethos with Emphasis on Humility and Human Action
01:52:26 - Breaking down the word 'Cypherpunk'
01:53:07 - Human Flourishing or Global Totalitarianism
01:55:11 - What Motivates Max to Improve the Privacy of Humanity
02:00:51 - What Work Should Max and Robert Cover Next?

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